Improvement in dress-protectors



UNITED STATES ADOLPH HERRMANN,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENTlN DRESS-PROTECTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,415, dated July l, 1873 application filed May 24, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADoLPH HERMANN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Reversible Dress-Protector, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l is an outside view of a portion of my improved dress-protector. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the same taken through the linear a' of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved dress-protector which shall be so constructed that when an edge becomes worn it may be reversed, and thus made to do double service. The invention consists in a reversible dress-protector formed by folding the material longitudinally so that its edges may meet or overlap each other along the central line, plaiting it transversely, and securing the plaits by two rows of stitchingabout equally distant from the edges of the protector and from each other, as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents aportion of the dress-protector, which is made ofthe ordinary material folded over longitudinally so that its edges may overlap each other along the central line of the. protector. The folded material is then boxplaited transversely, and the plaits are secured by two rows of stitching about equally., distant from the edges of the protector and from each other. The protector is secured to the dress by basting or other sewing.

By this construction when one edge of the protector becomes worn it may be detached and reversed; or it may be cut along its central line so that only half the ordinary quantity will be required for the dress.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A reversible dress-protectorforined of stiffened fabric or other suitable material folded longitudinally so that its edges meet or overlap each other along the central line, and provided with transverse plaits secured by two rows of stitching about equidistant from the edges and from each other, substantially as hereinbefore shown and described.

ADOLPH HERRMANN.

Vitncsses:

.l. B. MosHER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

